Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-26
HON. w. IL. JORDAN,
Member of the Assembly from the Fifty
fifth District, Alameda.


Hon. William H. Jordan, of Alameda,
Speaker OF the Assembly, is one of the
most conspicuous figures in the leeisla-
ture. Mr.. Jordan is a native of Cincin-
natl, o He is married, and now resides at
Oakland. Mr. Jordan came to California
in 1859, and has been actively engaged in
public labors here ever since. He was edu-
Gated in the far East, and WAS Graduated
with high hunors at Yale College On his
arrival in California he resolved to make
the law his profession, and took up lis
study with energy and determination aud
was soon admitted to the bar, and is now
in practice in San Francisco, having his
office AZ '323 Montgomery street. From
1881 to 1885 he was retained by the people
of Oakland SIS member of the local Board
of Education, in which position he proved
himself TO be a broad minded and inval-
liable aid to educational progress. In 1881
he was chosen to represent Alameda IN the
Legislature, and there at once became a
prominent figure. In all his career in that
memorable session he was uniformly found
standing firmly for liberal State policies,
for moral influences, and for progressive
action on the part of the State. In 1856 he
was reelected to the Assembly, bis in
dorsement by the people of Alameda being
SO emphatic. So soon as he was chosen,
his friends proposed his name for Speaker.
and with such favor throughout the State
was the nomination received that he
had from the outset practically no
opposition, and when the House con-
vened, it was at once conceded that no
man present was so admirably qualified for
that high trust. AS Speaker he has proved
the wisdom of the choice. He is impartial
self-posse.sed, quick 10 perceive, ready al
conclusion, and all the time apparently I'M
conscious of his personality while in the
chair. He is the Speaker, the monitor of
the House, guardian of important trusts.
and the administrator of weighty response
bilities Nevertheless he is not SO lost to
self to be lacking in personal dignity, nor
rs to be forgetful of the courteous conduct
of gentleman. Mr.. Jordan came to the
chair of the House greatly aided by broad
experience in the highest executive stations
of confraternal associations, in which he
has for many years been an earnest worker
and distinguished member. Mr.. Jordan
is simple in his manners, affable. self
sacrificing, and possesses in remarkably
large degree the accommodating spirit,
even to the extent of self-sacrifce such as
only pbilanthropic and kindly natures ex-
emplify. 1t is simple justice to say that no
Speaker has more favorably impres sed a
Legislature of California, or rect lived
larger verdict Of approval on the part of
the people His integrity is unquestioned,
his private life one of purity, his public
life one of courage and marked activity,
and has related to no measures or labors
that have not been recognized as for the
highest good of the people of the State
Mr.. Jordan is ready and graceful speaker,
his delivery being easy. forcible, earnest,
and his diction choice. He is never lost
for proper modes of expression or fitting
language in which to clothe his thoughts.